Two champions.
A pathway to Paris.
South Africa’s Alwande Sikhosana and Morocco’s Najwa Awane won the men’s and women’s singles. The ITF records that each earned a direct qualification slot for Paris 2024.
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Accra 2023.
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Two champions.
Morocco and Algeria
take continental gold.
Morocco won the men’s championship and Algeria the women’s. The competition formed Africa’s route to the IWBF Paris 2024 repechage tournaments, rather than automatic qualification for the Paralympic Games.
IWBF results and standingsGhana’s Black Challenge.
Gold on home soil.
Ghana defeated Morocco 2–1 in the final to win the inaugural Games’ amputee football title. The sport was part of Accra 2023’s adaptive sport programme; it is outside the Paralympic Games programme.
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Ghana's Black Challenge drawn in Group D for 2026 WAFF Amputee Football World Cup
The Ghana Football Association’s later World Cup preview includes Accra 2023 gold among the Black Challenge’s major continental achievements. It links that success with the team’s 2021 and 2024 African championship titles as preparations continued for Mexico. This is a retrospective reference to the Games, not a report published during the 2023 tournament.
African nations fully focused on Paris 2024 after past successes
The IPC’s early-2024 feature surveyed African Para sport ambitions ahead of Paris and noted Ghana’s hosting of the first African Para Games. It places Accra within a broader discussion of athlete development and continental participation. The feature is useful follow-up context, while its historic Paralympic medal statistics belong to those separate Games and are not Accra results.
Top Paralympic moments of 2023
Najwa Awane’s African Para Games victory featured in the IPC’s selection of memorable sporting moments of 2023. The article acknowledged the emotional circumstances following Morocco’s earthquake and her Paris qualification. Its inclusion shows the athlete’s Accra performance gaining international attention alongside major achievements from other sports and regional competitions during the year.
Regional Games bring added spice to 2023 UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour
The ITF’s year-end review highlighted Accra alongside the other regional Games on the wheelchair tennis calendar. It recorded Sikhosana’s title run without dropping a set and Awane’s demanding semi-final before her all-Moroccan final victory. The review explains the regional qualification route to Paris while retaining the additional eligibility requirements attached to those places.
NPC-Ghana hosts Para Powerlifting tournament for athletes on World Disability Day
A later Ghanaian development event linked the Games to ongoing community programmes. Citi Newsroom reported a national powerlifting competition and distribution of equipment originally donated for the inaugural African Para Games. The coverage also described support from the French Embassy and the launch of women’s amputee football, offering a concrete example of activity after Accra 2023.
Santiago 2023 Parapan American Games: Another big stop in the road to Paris 2024
In its preview of Santiago, the IPC placed Accra within the wider calendar of regional Para sport events. It confirmed that the first African Para Games took place from 3 to 12 September and staged three sports. This retrospective provides a useful primary-source check against earlier previews that continued to list additional planned disciplines.
Ghana wins Accra 2023 African Amputee Football Tournament
The World Amputee Football Federation’s report confirms Ghana’s 2–1 victory over Morocco in the Accra final and Egypt’s 4–2 win over Angola for third place. It identifies the McDan La Town Park venue and describes the extra-time finish. This federation account is the main results reference for the amputee football tournament.
Exclusive: Colombian Embassy in Ghana takes up case of unpaid bills from African Para Games
Inside the Games followed its pre-event payment report with coverage of Colombian diplomatic correspondence concerning website supplier Altheroh. The article presents the supplier’s complaint and Samson Deen’s response disputing the company’s conduct. It is retained as attributed historical coverage, with no claim here that the allegations were adjudicated or that the current payment position is known.
Sikhosana and Els the ultimate double act
Team SA reflected on the partnership between Alwande Sikhosana and Leon Els after their return from Ghana. Sikhosana won singles gold against Els, and the pair shared the doubles title. Their interviews emphasise mutual support, competition and the experience of representing South Africa at the first African Para Games, adding an athlete-centred perspective to the results.
2023 African Championships @ African Para Games
IWBF’s official event page records the final wheelchair basketball standings. Morocco finished first in the men’s competition, ahead of Algeria and Senegal; Algeria led the women’s standings, followed by South Africa and DR Congo. The same record explains that the championships selected Africa’s representatives for the 2024 repechage tournaments, rather than awarding direct Paralympic places.
Awane claims emotional victory in all-Moroccan wheelchair tennis final at African Para Games
Najwa Awane defeated compatriot Samira Benichi to win the women’s singles title and also partnered her to take doubles gold. Their success came as Morocco mourned the devastating earthquake at home. The report places those achievements alongside Morocco’s men’s wheelchair basketball victory and Algeria’s unbeaten run to women’s basketball gold.
Deputy Sports Minister Opoku Bobie lauds Ghana for hosting successful African Para Games at Closing Ceremony
The closing report records Deputy Sports Minister Evans Opoku Bobie’s praise for the organisers and participants. It reviews Ghana’s amputee football win, the Moroccan wheelchair tennis successes and the basketball champions, while noting the direct tennis pathway to Paris. The story provides a contemporary conclusion to the event without resolving inconsistent attendance figures in other reports.
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This is a curated, searchable collection of accessible reporting, not an exhaustive record of everything published online. News reports use their original publication dates; official event records use the competition dates marked on their entries. Pre-event plans, reported concerns and final sporting results are kept distinct. Summaries identify the source; allegations remain attributed reporting and are not presented as findings by AfPC.
Checked 11 October 2026. Photographs retain their credits. Some publisher pages restrict access; where full pages could not be retrieved, summaries draw on accessible indexed reporting. A source link is not an endorsement of every statement in that publication.
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